Casual readers of /Film will know that we’re all big fans of David Simon’s HBO series The Wire. In fact, Slashfilm editor-in-chief Peter Sciretta recently admitted that after months of disgracefully leaving The Wire on his DVD shelf, he finally gave season 1 a spin (his reaction? “Why did I not watch this sooner?“).

Livejournal user Patty Boh recently discovered that the soundstages for The Wire were still intact, so he somehow got access to them and photographically documented the results. The resulting photoset is both haunting and nostalgic, a sad, hollowed-out remembrance of one of the greatest television shows of our generation.

According to Patty, the building that houses the sets is scheduled for demolition and will soon become a supermarket. Somewhere in that fate is a plot for another compelling Wire season.